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This webinar series offers concrete strategies and recommendations for providers working with LGBTQ youth who have experienced trauma, including how to increase access to services, create a safe environment for care, and work with families and schools.

The purpose of this document is to contribute to the growing body of knowledge of effective models for addressing the comprehensive needs of women and girls of color living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS in the United States and beyond.

This booklet introduces a new approach to helping victims of sexual violence. This approach, called the victim-centered 'Sex Offender Containment Model', may be a significant change in the way many do advocacy work.

This self-assessment is for organizations to gauge their alignment with and assess their readiness to implement trauma-informed care practices.

This one-pager offers tips for hearing advocates to engage in effective, respectful communication with Deaf or hard of hearing individuals.

The author of this article discusses how researchers have developed "typologies" of sex offenders and have focused on describing characteristics of adult and adolescent sex offender, both males and females and that although this information is helpful none of it speaks of erotic development and its connection with the sex disorder or Paraphilia Disorder.

This guide is designed to help advocates, counselors, and educators begin or enhance their victim/survivor support services for male survivors of sexual violence. In the guide, you will find practical steps that you or your organization can take to make healing possible for male survivors of sexual violence.

This information sheet provides tips to young people to help their peers who experience relationship violence.

This is the expanded and updated version of the book. The idea and original edition was developed in collaboration with many people in preparation and for distribution at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta.

This guide contains information for advocates on identifying and working with LGBT specific elder abuse. The guide covers terms, historical factors related to LGBT elders, new rights and protections for LGBT elders and suggested practices in working with LGBT older adults.

Culture is often understood as ethnic culture, but in fact we all inhabit multiple cultures simultaneously and need to understand which ones we are operating in to be effective. This helpful resource from the Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence explores the intersections of culture, community and systems.

Abstract: "Women who have experienced intimate partner violence are consistently found to have poor sexual and reproductive health when compared to non-abused women, but the mechanisms through which such associations occur are inadequately defined (Coker, 2007). Through face-to-face, semi-structured in-depth interviews, we gathered full reproductive histories of 71 women aged 18-49 with a history of IPV recruited from a family planning clinic, an abortion clinic and a domestic violence shelter in the United States.